Bug 470357

Summary: sshd login settings are confusing
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Matthew Mah <mattm3a>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Lukas Ocilka <locilka>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P4 - Low    
Version: Final   
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Hardware: x86   
OS: openSUSE 11.1   
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Description Matthew Mah 2009-01-28 20:31:27 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121300 SUSE/3.0.5-1.1 Firefox/3.0.5

The sshd settings for authentication are confusing. RSA is a public key cipher. Is RSA enabled when checking public key authentication? 

I suspect the settings should be called RSA authentication and DSA authentication. That would make the choices mutually exclusive. 

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Lukas Ocilka 2009-02-16 09:50:54 UTC 
That UI check-box actually allows to set "RSAAuthentication" option.

According to man page...

RSAAuthentication
    Specifies whether pure RSA authentication is allowed. The default is
    “yes”. This option applies to protocol version 1 only.

So, It seems that the description and help (currently missing) for that option
should be more concrete or the check-box should be removed.
Comment 2 Matthew Mah 2009-02-17 16:00:44 UTC 
The checkboxes are for protocol version 1 and protocol version 2? That would also make sense. There should be a description to that effect.
Comment 3 Lukas Ocilka 2009-02-24 15:44:14 UTC 
Help and Dialogs have been improved to provide enough information
(in yast2-sshd-2.18.1).